Anika König
@anikakoenig.bsky.social
Anthropologist, researching reproductive technologies, endometriosis, STS, gender, violence, other stuff @FU_Berlin. #sociologus Journal for Social Anthropology #academicsky
I am super happy that the article "Anticipating the Future" I wrote with Stefan Reinsch has just been published in Social Science & Medicine. It presents our work on reproductive decision-making among people with cystic fibrosis in Germany. You can view and download it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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July 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I am super happy that the article "Anticipating the Future" I wrote with Stefan Reinsch has just been published in Social Science & Medicine. It presents our work on reproductive decision-making among people with cystic fibrosis in Germany. You can view and download it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Herzlichen Dank an den Vorstand der @dgska.bsky.social für das deutliche Unterstützungsschreiben angesichts der drohenden Kürzungen, durch die die Existenz unseres Instituts @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social insgesamt bedroht wäre 🙏
June 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Herzlichen Dank an den Vorstand der @dgska.bsky.social für das deutliche Unterstützungsschreiben angesichts der drohenden Kürzungen, durch die die Existenz unseres Instituts @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social insgesamt bedroht wäre 🙏
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Gestern protestierten unsere Studierenden bei einer Sitzung des akad. Senats gegen die Kürzungspläne der FU Berlin, die unser Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie unverhältnismäßig hart treffen würden. Vielen Dank an alle, die sich solidarisiert haben. It means a lot! 💜✊
(Photo: U. Probst)
(Photo: U. Probst)
June 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Gestern protestierten unsere Studierenden bei einer Sitzung des akad. Senats gegen die Kürzungspläne der FU Berlin, die unser Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie unverhältnismäßig hart treffen würden. Vielen Dank an alle, die sich solidarisiert haben. It means a lot! 💜✊
(Photo: U. Probst)
(Photo: U. Probst)
“Activism Was a Survival Strategy”: Chronic Illness and the Power of Endometriosis Activism as Work - König - Anthropology of Work Review - Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article is part of the special issue “Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work”, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksc...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“Activism Was a Survival Strategy”: Chronic Illness and the Power of Endometriosis Activism as Work - König - Anthropology of Work Review - Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I am delighted to share that Caroline Meier zu Biesen's and my article on #endometriosis activism and/as work is out now in Anthropology of Work Review (Open Access). It is part of a Special Issue on Disability, Chronicity, and Work by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch: doi.org/10.1111/awr....
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June 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I am delighted to share that Caroline Meier zu Biesen's and my article on #endometriosis activism and/as work is out now in Anthropology of Work Review (Open Access). It is part of a Special Issue on Disability, Chronicity, and Work by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch: doi.org/10.1111/awr....
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At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever:
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Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin receives overwhelming support from students and colleagues in the face of massive budget cuts
At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...
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May 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever:
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@domattes.bsky.social and I invite you to this exciting event on June 19 at Spore Initiative in Berlin: @alicebieberstein.bsky.social will talk with Esra Özyürek about her book 'Subcontractors of Guilt' and the implications it has for the current situation in Germany. The event is free of charge!
June 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
@domattes.bsky.social and I invite you to this exciting event on June 19 at Spore Initiative in Berlin: @alicebieberstein.bsky.social will talk with Esra Özyürek about her book 'Subcontractors of Guilt' and the implications it has for the current situation in Germany. The event is free of charge!
This sounds like a super interesting exhibition. What a pity I won't be in the UK tonsee it....
I can finally share news of the exhibition I've been working on as part of my postdoc with @hematopolitics.bsky.social! 'Blood: Ties and Tensions' will run from Feb - June 2025 and explores the social and cultural meanings behind blood donation and transfusion.
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/blood/
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/blood/
February 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This sounds like a super interesting exhibition. What a pity I won't be in the UK tonsee it....
The wonderful Andrea Whittaker and I published a paper on brokers in the fertility industry: Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis: Cultural Studies: Vol 39 , No 2 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis
International assisted reproduction depends largely upon the work of various brokers. They mediate and articulate global assisted reproduction assemblage, the mobilities of intended parents, surrog...
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February 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The wonderful Andrea Whittaker and I published a paper on brokers in the fertility industry: Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis: Cultural Studies: Vol 39 , No 2 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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News from the newly founded Alliance for Critical Scholarship and Solidarity. Press Review on the resolution of the German Bundestag “Never again is now: protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in Germany”...
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[:de]Allianz für Kritische und Solidarische Wissenschaft[:en]Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity[:]
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January 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
News from the newly founded Alliance for Critical Scholarship and Solidarity. Press Review on the resolution of the German Bundestag “Never again is now: protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in Germany”...
krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/pressespi...
krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/pressespi...
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„Damit hat Bettina Völter etwas geschafft, was wir im allgemeinen Diskurs (und zum Teil selbst in unserem unmittelbaren persönlichen Umfeld) schmerzlich vermissen: Sie hat sich nicht angemaßt, über uns, unsere Sorgen und unsere Bedürfnisse zu sprechen.“
#ASHBerlin
#ASHBerlin
Statement jüdisch-(deutsch-)israelischer Angehöriger und ehemaliger Angehöriger der Hochschule
Gruppe erklärt sich solidarisch mit dem Präsidium der ASH Berlin
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January 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
„Damit hat Bettina Völter etwas geschafft, was wir im allgemeinen Diskurs (und zum Teil selbst in unserem unmittelbaren persönlichen Umfeld) schmerzlich vermissen: Sie hat sich nicht angemaßt, über uns, unsere Sorgen und unsere Bedürfnisse zu sprechen.“
#ASHBerlin
#ASHBerlin
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It's out! Our latest book on reproduction and the good life. Focussing on injustice in healthcare created by normalistic conceptions of time and the good life.
Contributions by @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social
@ralmeling.bsky.social @anikakoenig.bsky.social and others.
#Medizinethik #bioethics
Contributions by @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social
@ralmeling.bsky.social @anikakoenig.bsky.social and others.
#Medizinethik #bioethics
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November 23, 2024 at 10:22 AM
It's out! Our latest book on reproduction and the good life. Focussing on injustice in healthcare created by normalistic conceptions of time and the good life.
Contributions by @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social
@ralmeling.bsky.social @anikakoenig.bsky.social and others.
#Medizinethik #bioethics
Contributions by @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social
@ralmeling.bsky.social @anikakoenig.bsky.social and others.
#Medizinethik #bioethics
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Es ist da! Als Druck und open access: Unser neuestes Buch zur Fortpflanzungsmedizin aus intersektionaler Perspektive.
Dank an meine wunderbare Co-Herausgeberin @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social und unsere Autorinnen!
#Medizinethik #bioethics
Dank an meine wunderbare Co-Herausgeberin @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social und unsere Autorinnen!
#Medizinethik #bioethics
November 23, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Es ist da! Als Druck und open access: Unser neuestes Buch zur Fortpflanzungsmedizin aus intersektionaler Perspektive.
Dank an meine wunderbare Co-Herausgeberin @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social und unsere Autorinnen!
#Medizinethik #bioethics
Dank an meine wunderbare Co-Herausgeberin @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social und unsere Autorinnen!
#Medizinethik #bioethics
In the mail today - a really wonderful collection edited by @cwiesemann.bsky.social and @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social that includes my conceptual paper on reproductive stratification that extends Colen's stratified reproduction by focusing on stratification within groups of people involved in ART
Es ist da! Als Druck und open access: Unser neuestes Buch zur Fortpflanzungsmedizin aus intersektionaler Perspektive.
Dank an meine wunderbare Co-Herausgeberin @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social und unsere Autorinnen!
#Medizinethik #bioethics
Dank an meine wunderbare Co-Herausgeberin @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social und unsere Autorinnen!
#Medizinethik #bioethics
November 23, 2024 at 10:53 AM
In the mail today - a really wonderful collection edited by @cwiesemann.bsky.social and @isabellamarcinski.bsky.social that includes my conceptual paper on reproductive stratification that extends Colen's stratified reproduction by focusing on stratification within groups of people involved in ART
How do people with rare genetic diseases view prenatal testing for their own condition? Today, our new paper on the views of people with #cysticfibrosis and #marfan syndrome was published in New Genetics and Society t.co/J40d0lVhAp
April 25, 2024 at 3:42 PM
How do people with rare genetic diseases view prenatal testing for their own condition? Today, our new paper on the views of people with #cysticfibrosis and #marfan syndrome was published in New Genetics and Society t.co/J40d0lVhAp
Only 4 days left (deadline is 22 Jan)! We'd love to receive your proposals for our f2f panel at #easa2024 in July in Barcelona: "Doing and undoing reproduction" in which we focus on reproductive technologies that facilitate and/or prevent births nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P141: Doing and undoing reproduction [Medical Anthropology Europe [MAE]
This panel addresses the challenges of doing and undoing reproduction with a particular focus on technologies that aim at facilitating and/or preventing the birth of children. We invite papers that de...
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January 18, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Only 4 days left (deadline is 22 Jan)! We'd love to receive your proposals for our f2f panel at #easa2024 in July in Barcelona: "Doing and undoing reproduction" in which we focus on reproductive technologies that facilitate and/or prevent births nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
Join us in beautiful Barcelona at #easa2024! Stefan Reinsch and I invite paper proposals on "Doing and Undoing Reproduction", Panel 141 nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... The deadline is 22 January.
December 13, 2023 at 10:22 AM
Join us in beautiful Barcelona at #easa2024! Stefan Reinsch and I invite paper proposals on "Doing and Undoing Reproduction", Panel 141 nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... The deadline is 22 January.
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The German Alliance for Global Health Research has made available my recent talk on a critical medical anthropological perspective on global health: m.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB3...
November 11, 2023 at 4:35 PM
The German Alliance for Global Health Research has made available my recent talk on a critical medical anthropological perspective on global health: m.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB3...
Today! 6pm CET.... Come and join us for this interactive Zoom performance on surrogacy and Q&A afterwards!
For those of you who haven't seen Global Belly yet - there will be another show on November 11 at 6pm! An online performance on transnational surrogacy and the complexities of third-party reproduction I was involved in as a scientific advisor. In English. With Q & A afterwards.
„Global Belly_Zoom”
Eine interaktive Zoom-Performance zum Thema #Leihmutterschaft
#bioethics
DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Medizin und die Zeitstruktur guten Lebens“.
Onlineperformance
Dienstag, 14. November 2023, 18:00 bis 19.30 Uhr via Zoom
Anmeldung: tinyurl.com/6pb489wk
Eine interaktive Zoom-Performance zum Thema #Leihmutterschaft
#bioethics
DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Medizin und die Zeitstruktur guten Lebens“.
Onlineperformance
Dienstag, 14. November 2023, 18:00 bis 19.30 Uhr via Zoom
Anmeldung: tinyurl.com/6pb489wk
November 14, 2023 at 10:36 AM
Today! 6pm CET.... Come and join us for this interactive Zoom performance on surrogacy and Q&A afterwards!
Reposted by Anika König
For our AnthroDesires Blog, @mxschnepf.bsky.social wrote "An affectionate review" of Queer Companions:
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anthrodes.hypotheses.org/637
In Suhbet with Queer Companions: An Affectionate Book Review
by Max Schnepf _ Kasmani, Omar. 2022. Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affect in Pakistan. Durham: Duke University Press. The meaning of suhbet, we learn from Omar Kasmani��...
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November 2, 2023 at 3:07 PM
For our AnthroDesires Blog, @mxschnepf.bsky.social wrote "An affectionate review" of Queer Companions:
anthrodes.hypotheses.org/637
anthrodes.hypotheses.org/637
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A desire comes to world, a dream made real. So incredibly proud, over the moon really. To all those who came on board, believed in the vision, made it happen, especially the incredible @lizault.bsky.social - I say: pyar, shukriya + desire mubarak 💕 Pakistan Desires is out now @dukepress.bsky.social
October 27, 2023 at 10:48 AM
A desire comes to world, a dream made real. So incredibly proud, over the moon really. To all those who came on board, believed in the vision, made it happen, especially the incredible @lizault.bsky.social - I say: pyar, shukriya + desire mubarak 💕 Pakistan Desires is out now @dukepress.bsky.social
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Nice article on in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) featuring several gender and STS scholars…
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Essay | What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells?
New technologies for creating genetically related children could transform family life, giving same-sex couples and infertile women more options for parenthood.
www.wsj.com
October 27, 2023 at 8:39 PM
Nice article on in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) featuring several gender and STS scholars…
www.wsj.com/health/what-...
www.wsj.com/health/what-...
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Danke, Theater Bremen! Last week I was invited to the production of „Happy Nights“ (highly recommended!), to talk about my research with Bibiana Mendes from the production team and could also join a conversation between cast and audience afterwards.
October 27, 2023 at 11:43 AM
Danke, Theater Bremen! Last week I was invited to the production of „Happy Nights“ (highly recommended!), to talk about my research with Bibiana Mendes from the production team and could also join a conversation between cast and audience afterwards.
Anindita Majumdar, Heather Jacobson, and I just published a new article! "Im/mobility in the transnational surrogacy market: disruptions and vulnerabilities in and beyond pandemic times". You can download it for free here: tandfonline.com/eprint/KTAWT... or just contact us if you can't access it.
Im/mobility in the transnational surrogacy market: disruptions and vulnerabilities in and beyond pan...
Based on in-depth interviews and non-participant observation collected with various actors in four surrogacy markets (India, the U.S. Germany, and Ukraine), in this paper we examine the impact of t...
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October 27, 2023 at 8:44 AM
Anindita Majumdar, Heather Jacobson, and I just published a new article! "Im/mobility in the transnational surrogacy market: disruptions and vulnerabilities in and beyond pandemic times". You can download it for free here: tandfonline.com/eprint/KTAWT... or just contact us if you can't access it.
For those of you who haven't seen Global Belly yet - there will be another show on November 11 at 6pm! An online performance on transnational surrogacy and the complexities of third-party reproduction I was involved in as a scientific advisor. In English. With Q & A afterwards.
„Global Belly_Zoom”
Eine interaktive Zoom-Performance zum Thema #Leihmutterschaft
#bioethics
DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Medizin und die Zeitstruktur guten Lebens“.
Onlineperformance
Dienstag, 14. November 2023, 18:00 bis 19.30 Uhr via Zoom
Anmeldung: tinyurl.com/6pb489wk
Eine interaktive Zoom-Performance zum Thema #Leihmutterschaft
#bioethics
DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Medizin und die Zeitstruktur guten Lebens“.
Onlineperformance
Dienstag, 14. November 2023, 18:00 bis 19.30 Uhr via Zoom
Anmeldung: tinyurl.com/6pb489wk
October 26, 2023 at 2:58 PM
For those of you who haven't seen Global Belly yet - there will be another show on November 11 at 6pm! An online performance on transnational surrogacy and the complexities of third-party reproduction I was involved in as a scientific advisor. In English. With Q & A afterwards.